But with Walter White, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan wasn’t creating merely another male antihero.
With Walter, Gilligan didn’t intend to impart humanizing aspects on an otherwise deeply, deeply flawed man.
“Television in general is designed to have a kind of stasis to it,” Gilligan told TV Guide.
(It’s no coincidence that a similar journey is now unfolding on Better Call Saul, the Breaking Bad prequel series about Walter White’s lawyer, which is also helmed by Gilligan.)